Wednesday, July 31, 2013

*** (Psalms 138:2) I will worship toward Your holy temple,
and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth's sake; for You [GOD] have magnified = Your Word = above ALL Your name.

*** (Acts
17:11) And these were more noble = than those of Thessalonica, = in that they received= the Word = with
all readiness of mind = and = searched the Scriptures = “DAILY” = to see if those things were so [or Not].

*** (Romans 6:16) Don't you know; that when you offer yourselves to
someone; as obedient slaves; you are
slaves of the one you ‘Obey’ –> either of Sin; which leads to Death; or of ‘Obedience’ –> which
leads to Righteousness? [John 7:38-39]

*** (James 1:13-to-16)When someone is Tempted; he should ‘NOT’ say, “I
am being tempted by God,” –> Because God cannot be
tempted by evil; Nor does He tempt anyone.

(Jas 1:14) Instead, each person is tempted by
his own desire [lust];being lured
and trapped by it.

(Jas 1:15) When that Desire
[Lust] becomes pregnant; it gives birth to Sin; and when
that Sin grows up
[matures]; it gives birth to Death.

(Jas 1:16) Do ‘Not’ be deceived; my dear
brothers.

Yesterday, I began this discussion… and have had several inquiries. In doing
so, I will take their published “12 Steps” and examine simply compare them with
the Bible. As we do this, I simply ask everyone, several questions? Will any of
those “12 Steps” be used by Christ Jesus: when we ALL stand before Him to be
Judged…? Please answer, “Yes or NO”…? Yesterday, did You ‘read & understand’
all the Bible Verses; and their ‘Application’ to the topic? Did You carefully
examine those extra informational links, provided in the blog? Did You pick it
apart and then “TEST”: any of the “12 Steps” to see IF there was a Conflict:
with what I had posted? Ultimately, Christ Jesus is the… “LIVING HOLY WORD of
GOD!” The God Man, came as the “Passover Lamb of God!” His finished work of
redemption is “CONDITIONAL! [John 7:38-39]” True Saving Faith, is also
Conditional [Acts 15:8-9]: based ONLY on His Holy Word! He, Christ Jesus: will
NOT use any of the “12 Steps” to “Judge Mankind!” He will ONLY use His Holy
Word… just as He said, “John 12:48”…!

*** (John 15:22-23-24)If I [Jesus] had Not
come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have “NO Excuse”
for their sin.

(John 15:23) He who hates Me [Jesus]: hates My Father
[God] also.

(John 15:24) If I [Jesus] had not done among them the works which No
other did; they would not have had sin. But
now they have both seen and hated Me [Jesus] and My Father [God].

*** (John 12:48) He who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not
receive My Words; has One who judges him;
the Word that I have
spoken; the same shall ‘Judge’ him in the “Last Day”.

***
(James 2:19)You believe that there is one God. That's fine!Even the demons believe that and tremble
with fear.

Believing “about GOD”… is “NOT” Believing: IN God…!
That is what “James 2:19” says in the preceding Bible verse! Since
MOST of those using the “12 Steps” believe in God: their belief about God: does Not constitute “Saving Faith!”
Their speaking using “God”: does Not indicate a “True Bible Belief”… that “Christ
Jesus is GOD!” They speak about Prayer, which is “Conditional!” They speak
about “Character Defects”: which are actually, “Sin & Lawlessness!” All
these human conditions are just like any other: of the other sinners, here on
earth. Does their dependency on Alcohol or Drugs, make them: “Any Different?”
Absolutely NOT! We are ALL: “Born Sinners”… and so we ALL: “Need the ONLY
Savior!” Christ Jesus, the Lord of Lords & King of Kings! Just Who is this “God
Man”…? He is the Living Holy Word of God… come as the Passover Lamb of God!

*** (Romans 5:12) Therefore,
just as sin entered the world through one man [Adam], and death through sin, so death spread to everyone, “Because ALL have sinned.”

***
(Proverbs 30:4) WHO has gone up
to Heaven and has come down? WHO has gathered the wind in His fists? WHO has
bound the waters in His
garments? WHO has established all the ends of the earth? What isHis name, and what isHis Son's name?Surely you know?

***
(Jeremiah 23:29)Is
not My Word like a
FIRE?Says the LORD Jehovah;and like a Hammer that
breaks the rock in pieces? [Hebrews
4:11-12-13]

*** (2Corinthains 11:4) For if someone comes along and preaches Another Jesus than the one we preached, or should you
receive a Different Spirit from the one you received or
a Different Gospel from the one you accepted, you are all too willing to listen.

*** (Hebrews
1:5-to-8) For to ‘which’ of the angels [None!] = did He [God] = say at ‘any’
time, = “You are My Son, = this day I [God] = have ‘begotten’ You [Jesus]?” =
And again, = “I will be to Him [Jesus] a Father [God], = and = He [Jesus] =
shall be to Me [God] = a Son?"

(Heb 1:6) And again, = when He [God] = brings in the First-born
[Jesus] = into the world, = He [God] says, = “And let ‘all’ the angels of God = “WORSHIP” = Him
[Jesus].”

(Heb 1:7) And of ‘the angels’ = He [God] says, = “Who makes His angels
spirits and His ministers a flame of fire.”

(Heb 1:8) But to the Son [Jesus] = He [God] says, = “Your throne, = O
God [Jesus], = is forever and
ever. = A scepter of ‘righteousness’ = is
the scepter of = Your [Jesus] kingdom.

If You will
simply take the time and study these Blogs… they will “Reference Bible
Verses” to validate this premise. The “12 Steps” program does “NOT” use these
Bible Verses! A “Finite Sinful Human Being”… cannot understand an “Infinite
Holy GOD”…! And without the Holy Scriptures, those using the “12 Steps” are “Spiritually
Blind!” Only when ‘One’, is Born Again by the Holy Spirit of God: can they even
“Begin to understand the Scriptures! It is the Indwelling Holy Spirit, Who
teaches God’s Truth, found in His Holy Word! These blogs will only point You toward
His TRUTH [His Word]! I may share GOD’S TRUTH… but again, it is ONLY His HOLY
SPIRIT… that will enlighten your ‘mind & understanding!’ All other
understanding of His Truth is… “Only Academic!”

*** (Proverbs
4:7) Wisdomis the main thing; getwisdom; and with all
your getting getUnderstanding.

*** (Psalms 119:11) I have hidden Your Word
in my heart; so that I might Not sin against You [Lord].

*** (James 3:12) Can the fig
tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? Either a vine, figs? So can NO fountain both
yield salt water and fresh.

*** (John
6:63-to-66)It is the [Holy] Spirit that makes alive, the
flesh profits nothing. The words that I [Jesus] speak to you are Spirit and
are Life. [Eternal]

(Joh 6:64) But there are some of you who do ‘Not’ believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not
believe; and who is the one betraying Him.

(Joh 6:65) And He [Jesus] said, Because of this I said to you that no
one can come to Me unless it was given to him from My Father [God].

(Joh 6:66) From this time “MANY” of His
disciples went back into the things behind,
and walked no more with Him [Jesus].

*** (John 7:38-39) The one who believes in Me [Jesus], as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of
living water flowing from his heart." [Romans
8:9]

(John 7:39) Now He [Jesus] said
this about the [Holy] Spirit, Whom those who were
believing in him were to receive. For the [Holy] Spirit was Not yet present, because Jesus had Not yet been
glorified. [Acts 2:1-5]

Recently I had a discussion… with someone about the “12 – Step Recovery
Program” I do Not know, why people choose such destructive lifestyles. Nor do I
pretend to. I only know what His Holy Word, the Bible… “Proclaims!” He, God,
says we are “All Born Sinners” and there is “Not One Good”… among ‘Any’ of
us.A simple reading of the Bible book
of “Romans”: will explain this. On the opposite, mankind has always ‘proclaimed’
his own goodness…! The LIE of a ‘Divine Spark’ in all of us: is right from “HELL!”
Humanistic thinking always leaves OUT: what God has said in “His Holy Word!”
Somehow those who hold to the “12-Step Program” only provide a cursory
acknowledgement of a ‘higher power’: and thus leaving “God and His Holy Word,
the Bible”… out of their discussions. “Sin is the Root: and SINS: are its
Fruit!” Many of them repeat the “Serenity Prayer”, which God does ‘Not’ hear.
Remember the temptation to Even by Satan in Genesis 3? His device has always
been… “Has God ‘REALLY’ Said: YOU SHALT NOT”…! The “12 Step Recovery Program”
is simply a human extension of this “LIE”.

*** (James
4:4-to-10)You Adulterers and Adulteresses!
Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility [War] with God? So whoever wants to be
a friend of this world is an enemy of
God. [Matthew 6:24 & Luke 16:13]

(Jas 4:5) Or do you think the
Scripture means nothing: when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live
in us jealously yearns for us? [Joshua 24:19]

(Jas 4:6) But He gives all
the more grace. And so He says, "God opposes the arrogant: but gives
grace to the humble." [2Corinthains 12:6-to-10 & Hebrews 4:16]

(Jas 4:7) Therefore, Submit
yourselves to God.Resist the
devil, and he will run away from you.

(Jas 4:8) Come close to God,
and He will come close to you. Cleanse
your hands, you sinners, and Purify your
hearts, you double-minded.

(Jas 4:9) Be Miserable, Mourn,
and Cry. [Repent] Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy
into gloom.

“ADDICTION”...
is the World’s “EXCUSE”… for your “CHOICE”: of “SIN/SINS”...

*** (Romans 6:16) Don't you know; that when you offer yourselves to
someone; as obedient slaves; you are
slaves of the one you ‘Obey’ –> either of Sin; which leads to Death; or of ‘Obedience’ –> which
leads to Righteousness? [John 7:38-39]

*** (James 1:13-to-16)When someone is Tempted; he should ‘NOT’ say, “I
am being tempted by God,” –> Because God cannot be
tempted by evil; Nor does He tempt anyone.

(Jas 1:14) Instead, each person
is tempted by his own desire [lust];being
lured and trapped by it.

(Jas 1:15) When that Desire [Lust]
becomes pregnant; it gives birth to Sin; and when that Sin grows up [matures]; it
gives birth to Death.

Our American
Holidays include Christmas… and a week later, people are getting “Drunk”,
celebrating the New Year’s Holiday. IF the “Christ Jesus” of Christmas was
really Important: why then all the “Drinking & Debauchery”: Only a week
later? Our Social “Pseudo American Christianity [?]” is only a ‘Verbal
Preference!’ And “NOT a Life Style: “Decision of Discipleship” to Christ Jesus
and His Holy Word! These Two: are as different as “Day & Night!” While else
would America be on the Decline: as a ‘Once Great Standard for Righteousness’
in a world going mad? As a parallel to “Backslidden Israel”, America has LEFT:
its roots of Truth and Trust In God! Today, Americans purchase over “Four
Trillion Dollars in Illegal Drugs: Yearly, including the pandemic of Marijuana!”
American Mothers: “MURDER by Abortion”, over “4,000+ Innocent Unborn Babies
DAILY! The TOTAL Exceeds Over… “55,000,ooo Million!” And then we show public
disdain, about “School Shootings”…? What is wrong with that Picture? Americans “Produce
& Export” more Pornography… to ALL other “Countries of the World!” And then:
there are those “WHO: FALSELY PROCLAIM”… “God Bless America”…?“Absolutely
NOT”…!

***
(Proverbs 14:34) Righteousness
lifts up a nation, but SIN: is a CURSE to ANY people.

*** (Psalms
127:3)Lo, children are
an heritage of the LORD: and
the fruit of the womb is His
reward.

*** (Genesis 4:10) And
He [God] said, What have you done? The
voice of your brother's blood cries to Me [God] from the ground.

*** (1Thessalonians 5:2-3) For you
yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

(1Th 5:3) For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden
destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.

*** (1Peter 4:17-18-19)For the time has come for the judgment to begin
from the house of God. And if it
first begins from us, what will be the end of those disobeying
the gospel of God?

(1Pet 4:18)
And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the
sinner appear?

(1Pet 4:19)
Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls
in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.

***
(2Corinthains 13:5)examine yourselves; whether you
are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own
selves; that Jesus Christ is in you [Romans 8:9]; unless you are reprobates? [Luke
6:26]

Where do You stand on the “Complete Authority”… of
the Holy Word of God…? Those,
Truly Born Again by the Holy Spirit of God have… His Indwelling Holy Spirit! The
Holy Spirit is the ONLY ONE: Who teaches You: God’s Truth from His Holy Word!
Many read other Authors and put their Statements above that of “GOD’S HOLY
WORD!” Have You ever Quoted: Spurgeon, Moody, Ryrie, Swindoll, McArthur or some
other Bible Teacher? And Yes, even these ‘Blogs’ which continually point TO:
His Holy Word…? Isn’t the Holy Word of God and what God Says THERE… “Enough”…?
Why do You have to read some earthly author, when His Holy Spirit… can teach
You, “GOD’S TRUTH’…? Or could it be You are “Too Lazy”… to study His Holy Word:
“Prayerfully”…?

*** (Acts
17:11) And these were more noble = than those of Thessalonica, = in that they received = the Word = with all
readiness of mind = and = searched the Scriptures = “DAILY” = to see if those things were so [or Not].

I was raised in a Catholic Family… and attended Catholic School. I left the CC in my
teens, only to search for God in my early 30’s. I left “ALL the Teachings of
Catholicism”… for the “Complete Authority” of the Holy Word of God! So also
must ‘THOSE’… who have been “Indoctrinated or Embraced” the… “12–Step Recovery
Program!” God’s Truth is “NOT Compatible” with those teachings of the… “12–Step
Recovery Program!” So Too, those “Truly Born Again” by His Holy Spirit, put off
those “Denominational or Church Practices”… that are in Conflict with the
Bible! Praying to “Mary” or “Pagan Statues of Supposed Saints”… is nothing but “Paganism
& Idolatry!”

*** (2Kings 18:4) He removed the high places, and brake the
images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the
children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

*** (2Corinthains 6:14-to-18) Do NOTbe unequally yoked togetherwith unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?

(2Cor 6:15) And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?

(2Cor 6:16) And what agreement does a temple of God
have with idols? For you are the temple of the
living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and
they shall be My people."

(2Cor 6:17) Therefore come out from among them and
be separated, says the Lord, and do Not touch the
unclean thing. And I will receive you

(2Cor 6:18) and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.

About Me

I am a Born Again Christian who believes in the Total Only Authority of the Bible… for those that call the Name of Christ Jesus! Those that do not hold to this… Are Not… “Real Christians!”
(1Corinthians 2:14) But the = natural man = does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, = for they are = foolishness = to him; neither can he = know them, = because they are spiritually discerned.
Jesus Said… (Luke 6:46) And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, = and do not do what I say?
(2Corinthians 11:13-14) For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(2Cor 11:14) Did not even Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light?
(1Corinthians 16:22) If anyone = does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, = let him be accursed. = The Lord comes!
Please email me to discuss this. Thanks, Roger459.